Thursday's Art Notes

  George Kuchar, an underground filmmaker who with his twin brother Michael produced hundreds of low-budget movies and inspired other artists like John Waters and Andy Warhol, died Tuesday at the age of 69, via the "San Francisco Chronicle":http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/07/BAFT1L1CQT.DTL. * One of Rodin's Thinker statues was vandalized with paint in Argentina, causing potentially permanant damage, via "AFP":http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itpI6eJTutGISoBuJsJ4wE2OwkuA?docId=CNG.e227b5e852a114c25c55524e64347309.481. * Performers at La Scala in Milan have called off a strike, ensuring that a special cultural exchange program featuring a group from Vienna will go on, via "The New York Times":http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/at-la-scala-the-show-will-go-on-as-workers-cancel-strike-plans/. * Discover "explains":http://news.discovery.com/earth/secrets-of-wtc-ship-revealed-110907.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1 how scholars identified the remains of a sailboat shipwrecked more than two centuries ago that was found last year in the ruins of the World Trade Center.